I had to cook for just myself Saturday night so I tried to come up with something that would have a little bite, and settled on chicken legs with a marinade/paste made from German mustard, garlic, hot sauce, and red pepper flakes.

The legs marinated for 9 or 10 hours and had a nice pungent aroma. I built a hot indirect fire and added some pieces of an old hickory log for smoke.

The end result was pretty good for something that I basically threw together without much regard for measurements. There was definitely some heat and garlic flavor, and even though I couldn't really taste any mustard there was a pleasant vinegary tang. What I wasn't expecting was how much the skin would shrink!

The chicken looks great....me loves grilled skin !! But I am impressed with the fact that you chose chicken to make for yourself. Every time I am left alone and want to grill I get myself a thick bone in rib-eye and some huge shrimp to grill. Come to think of it I don't think chicken would even make it into my top 10 in that regard unless you count wings. Anyway great cook !

I know what you mean about automatically thinking "steak" when grilling for one; it's that way for me, too. In this case it was going to be chicken for my daughter and myself but I forgot that she had to work that night, so I had to weigh putting the chicken in the freezer for another time against just going ahead and grilling it. Since the goal was to try to create something spicy that Mrs. Chicken definitely wouldn't care for I chose the latter, and saved a piece for my daughter to eat later.

I still can't believe how much the skin shrank. But it was indeed mighty tasty...I've find that when I put spices, seasonings, etc. between the skin and the meat the skin seems to always pick up more of the flavor.

I still can't believe how much the skin shrank. But it was indeed mighty tasty...I've find that when I put spices, seasonings, etc. between the skin and the meat the skin seems to always pick up more of the flavor.

I can believe it. I've often skinned and deboned chicken thighs for cooking, so a couple of times I tried tossing the skins into a frying pan with a bit of seasoning. I wound up with chicken "cracklings" about 2 inches long and they were actually very tasty. Sort of like the best part of a KFC chicken thigh but without the breading.

Unlike propane, you'll never wake up scorched and naked in another county because you mishandled a bag of briquettes.